The H-5 cost of 7b yen ($60M US) for such a small launcher, I think Vega is expected to be about $18M US, seems pretty steep.

The new rocket is quoted as costing 2.5b yen ($21.4M US) which still seems to be pretty expensive though so I cant see it solving to many cost problems since it is still 3 times the cost of a Falcon 1 flight.

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